Kindness moves mountains. Acceptance opens doors, makes room for change, diffuses misunderstandin g.

When you're sad, you're not sad. You are merely oblivious to the good things in your life. There is always a crack of light in the darkness. Find it.

I must say, I am trying to live my life with a sharpie marker approach. You can't erase the strokes you've made, but each step is much bolder and more deliberate.

In high school, I taught dance classes for 3-year-olds up to 16-year-olds, so between that and some bat mitzvah money, I saved up a pretty good nest egg to move to L.A.

Look, we are human, we make mistakes. I will gladly shout from the rooftops that I am not perfect. Nor will I ever be.

We are all the best versions of ourselves when we have love and acceptance in our lives.

Once a month, try something you don’t think you’d be good at. You can find such happy surprises.

Maybe I was a pirate in my past life. I didn’t kill people, though. I was just a badass

I’ve kissed girls before, it’s fun!

Beautiful. True. Words to remind yourself, words to live by.

I'm a very understanding person. That's something I was raised to be aware of - not everybody has the same shoes to fill or walks the same way or is on the same path.

If you find you are traveling on wrong road, turn to the right direction.

If we will just believe and act accordingly, all circumstances and situations, no matter how hopeless they appear, would change.

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.

It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure

It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

By the time I was a senior in high school, I was constantly with my headphones, just making music all the time. People were calling me a "musician", and I found that so weird.

I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy.

We just grew to trust each other [with Patti Smith] more and more over the years. Most of the time I didn't even have a movie camera.